Ethan Hawke
107 movies · 11 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 6, 1970 (age 55)
- Place of birth
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Also known as
- Ethan Green Hawke
Biography
Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an American actor, writer and director. He made his feature film debut in 1985 with the science fiction movie Explorers, before making a supporting appearance in the 1989 drama Dead Poets Society which is considered his breakthrough role. He then appeared in such films as White Fang (1991), A Midnight Clear (1992), and Alive (1993) before taking a role in the 1994 Generation X drama Reality Bites, for which he gained critical acclaim. In 1995, he starred in the romantic drama Before Sunrise, and later in its sequel Before Sunset (2004).
In 2001, Hawke was cast as a rookie police officer in Training Day, for which he received a Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category. Other films have included the science fiction feature Gattaca (1997), the title role in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2000), the action thriller Assault on Precinct 13 (2005), and the crime drama Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007).
Read the full biography
Hawke has appeared in many theater productions including The Seagull, Henry IV, Hurlyburly, The Cherry Orchard, The Winter's Tale and The Coast of Utopia, for which he earned a Tony Award nomination. He made his directorial debut with the 2002 independent feature Chelsea Walls. In November 2007 Hawke directed his first play, Jonathan Marc Sherman's Things We Want. Aside from acting, he has written two novels, The Hottest State (1996) and Ash Wednesday (2002). Between 1998 and 2004, Hawke was married to actress Uma Thurman.
Known for
-
★ 8.3 Dead Poets Society
1989 · Film
-
★ 6.2 The Purge
2013 · Film
-
★ 6.7 Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017 · Film
-
★ 7.4 Predestination
2014 · Film
-
★ 7.0 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2022 · Film
-
★ 7.6 Gattaca
1997 · Film
-
★ 7.5 Training Day
2001 · Film
-
★ 6.5 The Magnificent Seven
2016 · Film
Ethan Hawke: movies and TV shows
Acting (110)
- Upcoming Tonight at Noon
as Lefty
- Upcoming The Last of the Tribe
as William Phelan
- Upcoming
- Upcoming Hippies
as Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Upcoming
- 2026
- 2026 The Weight
as Samuel Murphy
- 2026 I, Object
as Little Ben (voice)
- 2026 She Dances
as Brian
- 2025
- 2025 Blue Moon
as Lorenz Hart
- 2025 Black Phone 2
as Grabber
- 2025
- 2023 Leave the World Behind
as Clay Sandford
- 2023 Strange Way of Life
as Jake
- 2022 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
as Efficient Man
- 2022
- 2022 Raymond & Ray
as Ray
- 2022 The Black Phone
as The Grabber
- 2022 The Northman
as King Aurvandil War-Raven
- 2022
- 2021 Zeros and Ones
as JJ / Justin
- 2021 The Guilty
as Sgt. Bill Miller (voice)
- 2021
- 2021 Waiting for Godot
as Vladimir
- 2020
- 2020 Tesla
as Nikola Tesla
- 2020 Cut Throat City
as Jackson Symms
- 2020
- 2019 Adopt a Highway
as Russell Millings
- 2019 The Truth
as Hank
- 2019 Stockholm
as Lars Nystrom
- 2019 The Kid
as Sheriff Pat Garrett
- 2018 Let's Dance
as Segment: "Table Manners"
- 2018
- 2018 Blaze
as Radio DJ
- 2018 Juliet, Naked
as Tucker Crowe
- 2018
- 2018 First Reformed
as Pastor Ernst Toller
- 2017 24 Hours to Live
as Travis Conrad
- 2017 Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
as Jolly the Pimp
- 2016 In a Valley of Violence
as Paul
- 2016 The Magnificent Seven
as Goodnight Robicheaux
- 2016 The Phenom
as Hopper Sr.
- 2016 Maudie
as Everett Lewis
- 2016 Maggie's Plan
as John Harding
- 2016 Invasion!
as Voice of the Cosmos (voice)
- 2015 Chattanooga Strong
as Narrator
- 2015 Regression
as Bruce Kenner
- 2015 Born to Be Blue
as Chet Baker
- 2015 10,000 Saints
as Les Horn
- 2015 Good Kill
as Commandant Tom Egan
- 2014 Cymbeline
as Iachimo
- 2014 Predestination
as The Bartender
- 2014 Boyhood
as Dad
- 2014
- 2013 Welcome Nowhere
as Narrator
- 2013 Getaway
as Brent Magna
- 2013 The Purge
as James Sandin
- 2013 Before Midnight
as Jesse
- 2012 Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
as Pat (voice)
- 2012 Sinister
as Ellison Oswalt
- 2012 Total Recall
as Hauser (long version only)
- 2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
- 2011 The Woman in the Fifth
as Tom Ricks
- 2011
- 2010 Brooklyn's Finest
as Det. Sal Procida
- 2010 Daybreakers
as Edward Dalton
- 2009 Staten Island
as Sully
- 2008 What Doesn't Kill You
as Paulie
- 2008 New York, I Love You
as Writer
- 2007 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
as Hank Hanson
- 2007 The Hottest State
as Vince
- 2006 Fast Food Nation
as Pete
- 2005 Lord of War
as Jack Valentine
- 2005 One Last Thing...
as Earl Jameison (uncredited)
- 2005
- 2005 Assault on Precinct 13
as Sergeant Jake Roenick
- 2005 The Phoenix Portal
as Ben Crandall (archive footage)
- 2004 Before Sunset
as Jesse
- 2004 Taking Lives
as James Costa
- 2002 The Jimmy Show
as Ray
- 2001 Tape
as Vin
- 2001 Waking Life
as Jesse
- 2001 Training Day
as Jake
- 2001
- 2001 Chelsea Walls
as Sam (voice) (uncredited)
- 2000 Hamlet
as Hamlet
- 1999 Snow Falling on Cedars
as Ishmael Chambers
- 1999 The Velocity of Gary
as Nat
- 1999 Joe the King
as Len Coles
- 1998 The Newton Boys
as Jess Newton
- 1998 Great Expectations
as Finnegan Bell
- 1997 Gattaca
as Vincent Freeman
- 1995 Search and Destroy
as Roger
- 1995 Before Sunrise
as Jesse
- 1994 Floundering
as Jimmy
- 1994 Quiz Show
as Don Quixote Student (uncredited)
- 1994 White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf
as Jack Conroy (uncredited)
- 1994 Reality Bites
as Troy Dyer
- 1993 Alive
as Nando Parrado
- 1992 Rich in Love
as Wayne Frobiness
- 1992 Waterland
as Matthew Price
- 1992 A Midnight Clear
as Will Knott
- 1991 Mystery Date
as Tom McHugh
- 1991 White Fang
as Jack Conroy
- 1989 Dad
as Billy
- 1989 Dead Poets Society
as Todd Anderson
- 1988 Lion's Den
as Chris
- 1985 Explorers
as Ben Crandall
Behind the camera (18)
- Upcoming The Last of the Tribe
Producer
- Upcoming Camino Real
Director, Screenplay
- Upcoming The Gunfighter
Writer, Producer
- Upcoming Untitled Agnes Denes Documentary
Executive Producer
- 2025
- 2025 Highway 99: A Double Album
Director
- 2025 King Hamlet
Executive Producer
- 2024 Wildcat
Director, Writer, Producer
- 2022
- 2020
- 2019 Adopt a Highway
Producer
- 2018 Blaze
Director, Writer, Producer
- 2015 Seymour: An Introduction
Director
- 2013 Before Midnight
Writer
- 2007 The Hottest State
Director, Writer
- 2004 Before Sunset
Screenplay
- 2001 Chelsea Walls
Director
- 1993 Straight to One
Producer, Director, Writer
Talk shows and appearances (50)
- 2026
- 2025 Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
1 episode
- 2025
- 2025 Vietnam: The War That Changed America
6 episodes
- 2024 My Generation
1 episode
- 2023
- 2022
- 2022
- 2022
- 2020
- 2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show
2 episodes
- 2019 Desus & Mero
1 episode
- 2018 GQ Presents: Iconic Characters
1 episode
- 2017 Talking with Chris Hardwick
1 episode
- 2017
- 2017
- 2016 Quotidien
1 episode
- 2016
- 2016
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
7 episodes
- 2015
- 2015
- 2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
1 episode
- 2014
- 2014
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers
6 episodes
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
5 episodes
- 2014 Off Camera with Sam Jones
1 episode
- 2012 Shakespeare Uncovered
1 episode
- 2010 Conan
1 episode
- 2010
- 2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
3 episodes
- 2008
- 2008
- 2007 The Graham Norton Show
1 episode
- 2007
- 2003
- 2003 Real Time with Bill Maher
1 episode
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live!
4 episodes
- 2002 Bo' Selecta!
1 episode
- 2002
- 1997 The View
6 episodes
- 1996 The Daily Show
2 episodes
- 1995
- 1994 Inside the Actors Studio
1 episode
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
6 episodes
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1 episode
- 1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark
4 episodes
- 1971 Great Performances
1 episode
- 1953 The Oscars
3 episodes